Whether you need to recover your NSX Manager from a failure or revert from changes, it is always good to have a current backup!And if you have several NSX Managers to configure backups on, updating them using the API call will save you quite a lot of time.NSX Manager supports setting up backups using FTP or SFTP, and to schedule them to run on an hourly,daily or weekly frequency.If you are looking for a FTP Server, I have used the FileZilla Server and pointed NSX Manager backups. It will support SFTP as well, check out the FileZilla info- forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?t=8812I have had the best success running API calls to NSX using the Firefox RESTClient. To start with-1. Locate the RESTClient Mozilla add‐on, and add it to Firefox.2. Click Tools > REST Client to start the add‐on.3. Click Authentication,then Basic Authentication, and enter the NSX Manager login credentials, which then appear encoded in the Request Header.Note: you may need to browse to the NSX Managers web ui, and accept the certificate warning before running query.4. Select a method such as GET, POST, or PUT, and type the URL of a REST API.Response Header, Response Body, and Rendered HTML appear in the bottom window.5. For POST and PUT, you will need to add a Custom Header.Select Headers, Custom header and add the name Content-Type and Value application/xml

The items in Bold are the options for your specific configuration…To check your backup settings, just change the Method to GET, and run the same URL with the Authentication: Basic Header-Method GET URL: https://nsx-manager.corp.local/api/1.0/appliance-management/backuprestore /backupsettingsHeaders: Authorization: Basic The configured settings will display in the Body:<backupRestoreSettings><ftpSettings><transferProtocol>FTP</transferProtocol><hostNameIPAddress>ftp-server.corp.local</hostNameIPAddress><port>21</port><userName>ftp-user</userName><password>my-pasword</password><backupDirectory>NSXBackupDir</backupDirectory><filenamePrefix>nsx-manager-</filenamePrefix><passiveMode>true</passiveMode><useEPRT>false</useEPRT><useEPSV>true</useEPSV></ftpSettings><backupFrequency><frequency>DAILY</frequency><hourOfDay>19</hourOfDay><minuteOfHour>30</minuteOfHour></backupFrequency><excludeTables><excludeTable>AUDIT_LOGS</excludeTable><excludeTable>SYSTEM_EVENTS</excludeTable></excludeTables></backupRestoreSettings>